> I suppose the use-case here is that the payee uses many TOR addresses with > only one LN node. Yes. Use different TOR addresses for things you want to keep separated. Any TOR address you advertise for channel connections is so widely shared through gossiping that you can in practice consider such an address to be the same identity as your peer ID. For the payer/payee communication (BOLT 12, and other interfaces such as a website) you should *not* use the same TOR address if you want that activity to remain unlinked from your node ID. You could use another TOR address, or any other pseudonymous communication method.
Depending on the transport layer you use (TOR or something else) you end up with a different type of URL. I think for now it's good enough to support TCP and TOR. Another use case could be to use partial onion routes for payments in the opposite direction. This is, for instance, to refund a payer who wishes to remain anonymous. The original payee has an URL (can be TOR hidden service, or even regular TCP), and the original payer connects to this (using TOR or another anonymizing medium). The original payer can then remain anonymous by sending an invoice for the refund that uses a partial onion route on LN. In this use case, the purpose is to keep the original payer anonymous (not reveal the node ID), not to keep the original payee anonymous. CJP _______________________________________________ Lightning-dev mailing list Lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev
